and transfer the money he embezzled to their bank accounts. It was due to an internal audit error that led to the arrest of a 47-year-old Teo on 19 January 2000. On 30 June 2000, High Court judicial commissioner Tay Yong Kwang found Teo guilty of ten charges of criminal breach of trust and sentenced him to 24 years in prison. The criminal case of Anthony Ler On 14 May 2001, 34-year-old Anthony Ler Wee Teang hired a 15-year-old youth to assassinate his wife, 30-year-old Annie Leong Wai Mun, who was in the midst of divorcing him, so that he can become the sole owner of their flat and himself gain custody of their then-4-year-old daughter. In December 2001, Judicial Commissioner (JC) Tay Yong Kwang, who presided the case, found Ler guilty and sentenced him to death for masterminding the murder while sentencing the unnamed boy to indefinite detention for the crime because the boy was underage and cannot be hanged. JC Tay stated that he did not believe Ler's plea of innocence and pointed out the evidence proving Ler's motive to commit the crime, stating Ler's act of crying at his wife's funeral were nothing more than "rehearsed acts performed by an accomplished actor" and called the boy's story "truthful"; he also said that the boy was not a cold-blooded killer, but was a teenager who was manipulated by an adult experienced in the ways of the world and adult machinations. Ler was hanged in December 2002 while the boy went on to spend 17 years in prison at the President's Pleasure before his release in December 2018 by the order of the President of Singapore, who granted clemency for him and remitted the remaining part of his sentence. Murder of football player Sulaiman bin Hashim On 31 May 2001, a 17-year-old footballer Sulaiman bin Hashim, together with his two friends, were attacked by a 8-member, all Malay Salakau gang at South Bridge Road. Sulaiman was grievously assaulted by the Salakau gang members while his other two friends managed to flee and call the police. Sulaiman was killed in the gangfight, with two fatal knife wounds out of the thirteen he suffered being the cause of his death. Within the next 13 months, six of the gang members involved were arrested and eventually sentenced to jail and caning for culpable homicide, rioting and voluntarily causing grievous hurt, while the